Sarajevo, Bosnia

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July 3rd 2009

Published: September 17th 2009

Friday July 3rd- We took an 8 hour (airconditioned...yes!) bus to Sarajevo, Bosnia from Beograd, Serbia. Tages and I were overwhelmed at how beautiful Bosnia was. We didnt know much about Bosnia and didn't know what to expect because it is not in the one large guide book we decided to bring. I felt like my breath was taken away when seeing Bosnia out of the bus window. The landscape slowly started... Read Full Entry

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public water fountain

1984 Olympics

this was one of the locations from the Olympics in Sarajevo

Olympics

another area where the Olympics were held, it's pretty run down now..

Holiday Inn

famous Holiday Inn Hotel where international reporters like Dan Rather stayed to cover the Seige of Sarajevo

new parliament bldg

this is the new parliament building since the old one was bombed

sarajevo

we were standing in what used to be known as 'sniper alley'

sarajevo history museum

an incredibly old grave with an incredibly interesting story that i have now forgotten....

sarajevo rose

A Sarajevo Rose is a concrete scar caused by a mortar shell's explosion that was later filled with red resin. Mortar rounds landing on concrete create a unique fragmentation pattern that looks almost floral in arrangement. We saw them in multiple places.

sniper towers

these apt buildings are where gunmen were set up and would shoot down at people, very close to sniper alley

sarajevo bridges

i was trying to get a picture of the 'romeo and juliet' bridge but missed it and took a pic of this one instead. but the romeo and juliet bridge (Vrbanja Bridge) is where a couple was shot down while trying to flee sarajevo

Sarajevo library still under construction

This main library was bombed during the siege. Our tour guide says he remembers the day quite well because millions of pages were flying all around the city and some even landed in their backyard which is quite a ways from the library.

Sarajevo

view from on top of a hill

view of Sarajevo

library

Sarajevo

Sarajevo muslim grave

we had never seen a grave stone look like this before but someone explained to us that it was a muslim grave pointed towards mecca.

inside a sarajevo tram

sarajevo archives

this one is for graham!

Ferhadija Mosque in Sarajevo

Holiday Inn

famous holiday inn

new govt buildings

sarajevo history museum

17th September 2009

Mo
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Emliee!
How cool!!!! I'm so glad that you and Tages are blogging about your travels! Reading this and looking at the pictures made me forget all that was bugging me today! Have fun! And keep us all posted!!!!!!

18th September 2009

Graham
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Memory is a Casualty
Im so so glad you got to see the national library/archives and took a picture of it. This was the reason I was going to meet you there. The National Archives was a strategic target during the siege, because the goal was to erase all existing memory of the ethnic minorities in Bosnia. There are some very interesting videos of people scrambling to haul boxes of records out of the archives while the place is being bombed/shot at/torched. Several people were killed attempting to save the records. Thanks!

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